The earthquakes that hammered the Southern California desert near the town of Ridgecrest last summer involved ruptures on a web of interconnected faults and increased strain on a major nearby fault that has begun to slowly move, according to a new study.
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Since the first spacewalk in 1965, there have been 227 spacewalkers, only 14 of them women.
The ionosphere is the charged part of the upper atmosphere extending several hundred miles up.
SpaceX is developing a capsule under NASA’s commercial crew program to launch astronauts to the international space station.
If you like seeing stars in the early mornings, it’s time to enjoy some of the better meteor showers of the year. But it might help to get away from the bright lights of the Strip.
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their work developing lithium-ion batteries.
If it’s any consolation to the Jupiter crowd, our solar system’s biggest planet — Jupiter — still has the biggest moon.
Tthe new ones are expected to last until the end of the space station’s life.
A robotics display kicked off the first day of PACK EXPO, underway at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Shoppers were lined up outside the Summerlin store by 7 a.m. to await the store’s 8 a.m. opening on Friday, which marked the global launch of Apple’s iPhone 11.
Astronaut Nick Hague and the rest of the International Space Station crew previewed “Ad Astra” a few weeks ago.
Bigelow Aerospace founder Robert Bigelow hosted eight NASA astronauts to get feedback on how the company could make its B330 space station more user-friendly.
It’s twice the size of Earth with eight times the mass, and its star is unlike our sun.
Apple delivered the news Tuesday while also unveiling three new iPhones that won’t look much different than last year’s models.
